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Heliospongia vokesi ✝
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Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Porifera : Demospongea : Epipolasida : Heliospongiidae : Heliospongia : Heliospongia vokesi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 299 - 296 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 265 - 260 Ma Permian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary, attached (based on Demospongea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | suspension feeder (based on Demospongea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | silica (based on Epipolasida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. H. King. 1943. New Carboniferous and Permian sponges. Kansas State Geological Survey Bulletin 47(1):1-36 |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1943 | Heliospongia vokesi King p. 8 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; text-fig 1 |
1960 | Heliospongia vokesi Finks p. 48 figs. Pl 1, fig 7; pl 2, figs 4,9; pl 4, figs 1-5 |
1998 | Heliospongia vokesi Rigby et al. p. 83 figs. Pl 13, fig 1 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!